Most of the flack from Wire fans on here has been in response to those of limited intelligence who have claimed some kind of god-given right for the pies to be top of SL. Catalans are a very dangerous side and it's no disgrace to lose to them. Nothing can be taken for granted this year. Pies should be happy that you have one of the best sides in SL: Wire and Cats are two of the other best sides.

bookmarked for future use , i think the last time you thrashed us was july 2009 good luck with that anyway

Not convinced with this Wigan team, we aren't creating anything from our half backs Deacon is past it, jury still out on Finch, missing Piggy and not been replaced Joel is not the answer at centre and when George goes heaven help us!!hand on heart can anyone say they are enjoying the rugby dished up this season compared to last, we will still give them our support but we have lots of problems.

I think the team relies too much on sweeping cross field passing moves to score and to make breaks with little variation. It takes a lot of hard work from the outside backs and props to get the team set for an attacking move and with the team making more errors this year it means the team keep having to rebuild the platform. There doesn't seem to be anyone in the middle of the park who can make a break or create something out of nothing. Leuluai can run with ball in hand and break the line occasionally but that's usually only as a broken-field runner. Against a tight defence he's a bit more limited.
Most of Wigan's attacking threat comes at the end of a set of six as the ball goes wide to Tomkins, so a disciplined sliding defence can cover. They can also usually guess that it's Tomkins who receives the ball. Of course teams still find it hard to stop him, but they seem to be cutting out moves easier.
Handling errors are also making it harder in attack because the team has to set the platform again before trying to work the ball wide, whereas a side like Wire who use offloads as their main way through a defence can work openings down the middle as well as out wide. Add to that the fact that close to the line it seems the players want to score every time which means they tend to miss the opportunity to get repeat sets and build pressure.
As it stands when playing in the halves neither Leuluai, Deacon nor Finch really pose a threat running with the ball so perhaps a strike player in the halves would add a threat with ball in hand down the middle and give teams another player to worry their defences.

It sounded like we was attacking with richards side all the time but they found it out all game yet nothing new was tried

At the end of the day we slipped up **** happens now for next week i feel sorry for cas cause they are going to get the backlash

errh - Catalans have played Wigan twice this season and won both of them ! maybe you need to change your statistician ?

well said RG

post of the weekend !

Wigan were outcoached IMO - Robinson did his homework on Wigan and stifled much of the attacking efforts of Hoffman & co. Young Sam did his best and Charnley for me was the Wigan MOM but poor displays from Carmont & Leuluai & Finch but the Wigan play was too predictable for me with too much reliance on Richards down the left side.Ferriol,Fakir,Simon & co stopped anything through the middle and Greenshields mopped up pretty well anything Deacon put up in the air.Baile,Sa & Millard worked like trojans and Hendo,Dureau & Pelissier looked very reliable.As a neutral I was rather disappointed with the Wigan approach to the game but impressed with the solid Catalans teamwork and discipline despite not really having the rub of the green with some very dubious decisions going against Catalans by Mr Silverwood IMO.
A well deserved win and comiserations to the loyal Wigan fans who were great as usual but rewarded with only a mediocre display from their team.

It's pretty obvious I'm saying you should be following the moderation process - HTH.

If you're going to hide behind the AUP at least understand the difference between a moderator and the moderation process.

but they didn't have briers, and then solomona was injured, so that's why they didn't win.

warrington are the best team in the league, look at how many points they've scored

year of the wolf

Solomona was only injured because we did it on purpose though because he was such a threat and we made an illegal tackle on him.

Bloody ell Wigan, CHEATS!